Word and picture: A study of the double talent in Alfred Kubin and Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando.
Item
-
Title
-
Word and picture: A study of the double talent in Alfred Kubin and Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando.
-
Identifier
-
AAI8914801
-
identifier
-
8914801
-
Creator
-
van Zon, Gabriele.
-
Contributor
-
Adviser: Allen McCormick
-
Date
-
1988
-
Language
-
English
-
Publisher
-
City University of New York.
-
Subject
-
Literature, Germanic
-
Abstract
-
The interaction of literature and visual art is most obvious when both stem from the same creative mind. Such double-talented activity as practiced by Alfred Kubin and Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando both raises and answers questions as to the kind of interaction that takes place between the two media. Interaction occurs on three levels: physical, formal and personal. Part I of this study explains how relationships on the physical level involve the writer's and graphic artist's implements, such as pen and pencil, paper and ink. Relationships of aesthetic form are explored in Part II to determine how they link both line and word in complementary structural patterns. Part III offers an analysis of Kubin's and Herzmanovsky's communication with each other through their correspondence and less directly through their works of art. In Part IV the final chapter discusses personal myth and touches upon the secret world of the artistic persona.;The significant conclusions that can be derived from reading this study include the following: (1) Private signs and private symbols, presented by double-talented artists have meaning not just as isolated instances, but as referents within a system of meaning made manifest in aesthetic forms. (2) The symbiosis of multiple meanings in both Kubin's and Herzmanovsky's work is summed up in the collective idiom of Kubinesque and Herzmanovskian myths. (3) Kubin and Herzmanovsky's pictorial and verbal languages reinforce each other's idiomatic power by creating syntagmatic relationships between the two media. Resonances from one can always be found in the other medium, resulting in a mutually beneficial experience.;This analysis specifically relates Kubin's novel Die andere Seite to his graphic work, and Herzmanovsky's Austrian Trilogy (Der Gaulschreck im Rosennetz, Rout am Fliegenden Hollander, Maskenspiel der Genien) to his drawings.;Their Austrian heritage played a major role in Kubin's and Herzmanovsky's work. As members of the generation born in the 1870's, Kubin and Herzmanovsky partook in the ambivalence of an era coming to an end on the one hand and a feeling of renewal on the other. Kubin and Herzmanovsky also shared the Austrian predilection for a second reality, an inclination that tends to magnify when primary reality is in question. In choosing two media they reinforce their aim to create order in the fragmented chaos of life.
-
Type
-
dissertation
-
Source
-
PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
-
degree
-
Ph.D.
